"apeirophobia" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990, Reinhardt Grossman, The Fourth Way: A Theory of Knowledge, Indiana University Press, page 227",
          "text": "My view is free from apeirophobia, the horror of the infinite, which colored so much of what was written at the beginning of this century about the foundations of mathematics.",
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          "text": "The clearest evidence of Aristotle's apeirophobia is to be found in the Posterior Analytics, book 1, chapters 19-22.",
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          "ref": "1999, Spencer Golub, Infinity (Stage), University of Michigan, published 2001, page 14",
          "text": "Apeirophobia (fear of infinity) seems here to prod thanatophobia (fear of death) and necrophobia (fear of corpses) into being and later nonbeing, […]",
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          "text": "2016, Bobby Azarian, \"Apeirophobia: The Fear of Eternity\", The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/apeirophobia-the-fear-of-eternity/498368/"
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